Re: [WiX-users] Configuring Users

2006-11-27 Thread Bob Arnson
Tina Basinger wrote: > I have a user node specified in my Wix code and it is set to create > the user specified. It is creating a local user account. From what I > know, the account is created during the ConfigureUsers custom action. > When ConfigureUsers is done, can I use the new user that

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Customized UI

2006-11-27 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Palmer wrote: > This talk of WiX 3's "floating" Publish elements sounds interesting. > I can appreciate the complexity of a fully branching UI, but I'm > hoping that the ability to inject a simple form or two into a linear > UI flow might not be so hard. In fact if that could be done co

Re: [WiX-users] How to write a installer that can be seen by everyone using WIX

2006-11-27 Thread Rob Mensching
Install it per-machine (see the ALLUSERS property in the MSI SDK). From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of xin wei Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 22:10 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to write a installer that can be seen by everyone using WIX

[WiX-users] How to write a installer that can be seen by everyone using WIX

2006-11-27 Thread xin wei
Hello everyone: I want to write a installer to make sure the program installed can be seen by enery account of the machine. I have written my installer refered the sample of WIX, but the program installed can only be seen by the installer account. I'm very appreciated if you can tell me how to

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Customized UI

2006-11-27 Thread david adams
Our UI is property driven with a "branching" navigation. We do it in 2.0. David Adams MSN MessengerID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Scott Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Bob Arnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: Gary Pretty ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [WiX-u

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
Here is the log entry: MSI (c) (44:78) [13:58:30:775]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying ALLUSERS property. Its current value is '2'. Its new value: '1'. From: Rob Mensching Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:39 PM To: Jeff MacDuff; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-u

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Rob Mensching
What does your log file say the value for ALLUSERS is? If it isn't 1, then you're not doing a per-machine install and you won't get the "All Users" profile to install into. From: Jeff MacDuff Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 15:26 To: Rob Mensching; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
It should be per machine... is there a good way to tell? From: Rob Mensching Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:24 PM To: Jeff MacDuff; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir Jeff, are you doing a per-machine or a per

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Rob Mensching
Jeff, are you doing a per-machine or a per-user install? From: Jeff MacDuff Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 15:14 To: Rob Mensching; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir Looks like Windows SDK: KnownFolders.h has the list

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
Looks like Windows SDK: KnownFolders.h has the list of folders. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff MacDuff Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:10 PM To: Rob Mensching; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorm

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Customized UI

2006-11-27 Thread Scott Palmer
On 11/27/06, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only other suggestion I'd make is to use different names for the custom library you create. In WiX v2, you have to change the various Back/Next property values to change the dialog sequence. In WiX v3, Derek added support for "floating" Publ

[WiX-users] Configuring Users

2006-11-27 Thread Tina Basinger
I have a user node specified in my Wix code and it is set to create the user specified. It is creating a local user account. From what I know, the account is created during the ConfigureUsers custom action. When ConfigureUsers is done, can I use the new user that was created in a custom action

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
The log file I just ran shows the MyPicturesFolder mapping to the current users folder, not the users\public\pictures folder which would be the "machine wide" pictures folder. The documentation also states that. From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Mike Dimmick
Is this not the place that MyPicturesFolder maps to if you're doing a per-machine install? -- Mike Dimmick _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff MacDuff Sent: 27 November 2006 22:10 To: Rob Mensching; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net S

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
No I don't off the bat... but I know that users\public\pictures is one of em J I will send some offline email and see if I can dig it up... no promises. From: Rob Mensching Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:10 PM To: Jeff MacDuff; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE:

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Rob Mensching
I've been considering the need to create a standard CustomAction to process all the new standard directories on Vista. It sounds like we'll need to do that. Jeff, do you have a pointer to the documentation that points at all the new standard folders provided by the Vista shell? From: [EMAIL P

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
Ok that worked, I now see all the propertys However there is no property set for c:\users\public. So since there isn't a MSI property I can latch on too... is there another method? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Gutride Sent: Monday, November 27, 200

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Dana Gutride
Try specifying l*v instead of lv. Dana On 11/27/06, Jeff MacDuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok I ran the verbose install like this: msiexec /i foo.msi /lv foo.txt however I didn't see anything in the log that shows all the propertys? I did look for the value ( c:\users\public) but it wasn'

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
Ok I ran the verbose install like this: msiexec /i foo.msi /lv foo.txt however I didn't see anything in the log that shows all the propertys? I did look for the value ( c:\users\public) but it wasn't listed at all. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Gutride

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Customized UI

2006-11-27 Thread Bob Arnson
John Watson wrote: > Under my main build folder I created a subfolder called Wix to contain > all my *.wxs build files. To customize the UI, I created a > subdirectory under there called wixui (build\Wix\wixui) and copied > stuff over from WiX2\src\ui\wixui (note that WiX2 is the folder under >

Re: [WiX-users] Modifying a static control without EventMapping nor ActionText

2006-11-27 Thread Bob Arnson
Calin Iaru wrote: > my MSI setup needs some custm actions that should modify a Static > text control after pressing a Configure button. I have found a > workaround for this problem by creating many such text controls on the > same client area and position and having one visible. When the >

Re: [WiX-users] Wix v2 Appllication launch fails if user changes install path.

2006-11-27 Thread Bob Arnson
Chuck wrote: Just to muddy the waters a little, over the weekend I wrote a quick and dirty DLL that has a single method that launches my application. The path to the app is hard coded in the dll to be C:\testing\foo.exe. If I change the installation directory on install to match this value t

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Dana Gutride
Take a look at this link too: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370810.aspx On 11/27/06, Dana Gutride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My other idea: try a verbose install on vista (my vista vm isn't running right now, or I'd try it for you). Take a look at the properties at the end of the

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Dana Gutride
My other idea: try a verbose install on vista (my vista vm isn't running right now, or I'd try it for you). Take a look at the properties at the end of the log, is the property you need in there somewhere? You might be able to use it the same way. Dana On 11/27/06, Jeff MacDuff <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
The problem is that it's not in the list. Users\public is new "common" directory introduced in Vista, it's there on every install.. if my user name was joe I would also have users\joe was well. The pubic folder contains music / docs / etc that all users inherit . Since it's not a "name

Re: [WiX-users] InstallLocation

2006-11-27 Thread Wilson, Phil
You need a type 51 custom action that sets ARPINSTALLLOCATION. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Brown Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 11:16 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] InstallLocation Hi

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Dana Gutride
Jeff: If it's in the following list, you can use it relatively easily. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa372057.aspx The directory structure would look something like what is below (just the beginning, you should be able to fill in the rest. --- this is the important par

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
Any help? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff MacDuff Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 7:22 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir I need to install some sample content into the %public%\picture

[WiX-users] InstallLocation

2006-11-27 Thread John Brown
Hi, I want to be able to complete an install such that the InstallLocation property of the Win32_Product WMI class is properly filled in. Here is an example script for enumerating Win32_Product instances and their properties: --- cut products.js -

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Customized UI

2006-11-27 Thread John Watson
Hi Gary and Scott, First, I'm not a developer on the WiX team so take what I have to say as just one opinion. :) Two months ago I was (I think) where you are now - trying very hard to figure this all out with very little documentation to go by. For reference, I'm using WiX 2.0 latest build since

Re: [WiX-users] New Website install

2006-11-27 Thread david adams
We are using a temporary workaround until the bug is fixed. We use Votive 2.0.4221.0 as our standard version and copy the Server Custom Action functionality (sca DLLs & WixLibs) from the binary 2.0.3309.0 release. Apparently, the bug was introduced sometime after that release. We held at 422

Re: [WiX-users] IIS Extension... how to specify ROOT

2006-11-27 Thread david adams
This is how we create a new website / webapplication that exists at the "root" for ASP.NET 2.0 applications. We use WiX 2.0. Let me know if you have any questions. David Adams MSN MessengerID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Matthew Janulewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rob MacFadyen" <[EMAIL P

Re: [WiX-users] Failed to read iiswebs table

2006-11-27 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
This is the URL for the bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1544874&group_i d=105970&atid=642714 You will have to compile your own Wix to fix this. I suggest getting the latest from CVS and not using the source .zip archive. Run your .msi with logging turned on to see i

Re: [WiX-users] New Website install

2006-11-27 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
This is the bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1544874&group_id=105970&atid=642714 Not fixed yet. You will have to compile your own Wix to fix this. I suggest getting the latest from CVS and not using the source .zip archive. Run your .msi with logging turned on to se

Re: [WiX-users] IIS Extension... how to specify ROOT

2006-11-27 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
Sorry I don't have an answer for the bulk of this question, but for the ASP 2.0 part you can set up separate application pools on IIS then install your webapp to the one that supports Asp 2.0. I don't think you can make a Wix-based installer set up the AppPool like that, but if you do it by hand fi

Re: [WiX-users] Wix v2 Appllication launch fails if user changes install path.

2006-11-27 Thread Chuck
Bob, The answers to your questions are:     Yes it does run from a command prompt.     It does have some dependencies that are installed with it...they are all installing correctly.     It is not dependent on a particular working folder. Just to muddy the waters a little, over the weekend I w

Re: [WiX-users] DropDownChoice question

2006-11-27 Thread Beto Siless
Sorry to all, I made a mistake and sent this mail to the wrong list. Apologies Beto Beto Siless wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm new to wicket and have a simple question: > > I want to display a dropdown choice but I don't want to bind the entire > list of objects in it. Is there a simple way t

[WiX-users] DropDownChoice question

2006-11-27 Thread Beto Siless
Hi everyone, I'm new to wicket and have a simple question: I want to display a dropdown choice but I don't want to bind the entire list of objects in it. Is there a simple way to bind a key-value pair and get into a property the selected Id and not the selected object (like .Net dropdow

[WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff MacDuff
I need to install some sample content into the %public%\pictures folder on the target machine but I am unsure how to do this. How do I specify a environment variable path for a directory element? Thanks, Jeff - Take

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Customized UI

2006-11-27 Thread Scott Palmer
Gary, I have the exact same need and so far the documentation I've seen for WiX (what little there is) suggests that you need to download the source code and recompile the WiX UI library (!) -- so perhaps your message fit better on the dev list than John implies :). It's in the tutorial in sect

[WiX-users] Modifying a static control without EventMapping nor ActionText

2006-11-27 Thread Calin Iaru
Hi all, my MSI setup needs some custm actions that should modify a Static text control after pressing a Configure button. I have found a workaround for this problem by creating many such text controls on the same client area and position and having one visible. When the Configure button

Re: [WiX-users] Russian Merge Module

2006-11-27 Thread gboreki
Hi Rob, I did some new findings in this issue. This merge module is translated to 10 languages (because its registry keys are read and shown in client machines). The setup itself is translated to only three languages. So the combination used to the russian setup is an english wxl in the setup t

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Customized UI

2006-11-27 Thread John Watson
Review Lesson 2 of the WiX tutorial at: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/. Also, I'm copying the WiX Users mail list as this question is more appropriately asked there - wix-devs is for questions around developing WiX, not using it. Best Regards, John On 11/27/06, Gary Pretty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>